Month: September 2018

Steve Loveridge’s stunning and evocative documentary of his long time friend Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam (aka rapper M.I.A) begins with a question that he poses to the British-Sri Lankan Tamil star. Why isn’t she like a normal popstar? Why don’t I shut the fuck up you mean, she replies with a cutting smile. M.I.A is not…

Bart Layton’s dynamic and energetic American Animals is an intriguing mix of the heist narrative and documentary interviews. Based on the real life exploits of four college age boys in the early 2000s, it follows Spencer Reinhard (Barry Keoghan), Warren Lipka (Evan Peters), Eric Borsuk (Jared Abrahamson) and Chas Allen (Blake Jenner) as they decide to carry out…

Desiree Akhavan’s follow up to the acclaimed Appropriate Behaviour (2014) is a coming of age drama set in a gay conversion camp in the rural US during the early years of the 1990s. Chloe Grace Moretz is the titular Cameron, a young woman struggling to understand her sexuality who is sent away to a Christian…

Fresh from his Cannes win for Best Director in May, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War is beautifully bleak portrayal of a battle scarred Europe following the end of the Second World War. Three artists travel through rural Poland in search of young people who can be moulded into true performers, displaying the vitality of the communist regime,…